Anderson Cooper Corrects Cuomo’s Description of French Terrorist as ‘African-American’
As the multiple hostage situations were unfolding in France just before 12 noon ET hour earlier today, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Chris Cuomo were on the ground in Paris, giving viewers live updates with the relatively little concrete information they had to dispense. Cuomo was talking about one of the suspects holding hostages in the Paris kosher supermarket and referred to him as an “African-American man.”
“Not American,” Cooper quickly jumped in. “The man of African descent.”
“Right, African descent,” Cuomo replied. “Thank you, sorry. Anderson.”
The man on the right, Amedy Coulibaly, was the suspect in question. He has since been killed by French police:
It was small error that was quickly corrected on air, but that didn’t stop conservatives on Twitter from using the moment to highlight CNN’s alleged “political correctness,” led by TheBlaze’s Dana Loesch:
Wait — did a CNN reporter actually call one of the Islamist terrorists, in France, “African American?”
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) January 9, 2015
Watch video below, via CNN:
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